Our Area Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Riscylla Shaw, is inviting interested Anglicans from across our region, to join her for an evening study this February, looking at a new book by Richard Rohr, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage. The study is a one night event, offered on 2 dates, February 5 and 6, 2026.  Click the links below to register. Offering TWO dates, pick the one you prefer!

Register here for February 5, 7:30-9:00 pm https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/-9_PQ9PPQiOvL5Mo1WUhfga

Register here for February 6, 9:30-11:00 am https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RxkNx3xjR1SvLTxLUSDfyg

Book summary: In The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage (2025), Richard Rohr offers a deeply personal, contemplative guide for living compassionately in a broken world by shifting from a stance of rage to one of profound empathy and lamentation. Drawing upon the Jewish prophets and the concept of lacrimae rerum — the tears of things. Rohr argues that true spiritual maturity involves embracing the inherent brokenness of reality rather than trying to fix it through control, violence, or judgmentalism. Instead of merely reacting with outrage to injustice, he urges us to let the world’s pain soften us, transforming our anger into “sacred criticism” and “active compassion”. Ultimately, Rohr challenges us to move beyond “clickbait righteousness” and, by embracing the “way of tears,” discover a “holy disorder” that allows us to see the divine, sacred, and wounded nature of all creation.